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Thursday, December 31, 2015

Happy New Year! My Team and I want to wish you a safe and happy new year weekend. Have fun and be safe!
We'd like to welcome all of you back to this week's winners' post. We had a great turnout with 120 entries last week!
Well, we're short a heap of Team favorites. We've got a sickly Team member and then, well, it's the holidays and the best time to be taking a break! lol Also, we're saying goodbye to Julie Odil! Although she did take the time to chose a Team favorite before her departure. Please help me bid her farewell and great success in her future endeavors. She's been a fantastic Team member and I so much appreciate that she jumped into my moving car and helped me out as she did.
Just a quick reminder... we're still having our DT call and you can read all the details here.
Well, the masses have spoken and we will continue to use Random {dot} org to select our winners. Thank you to those who left comments about their opinion on this matter. I also believe this is the fairest way to select winners.

Ssooo with that said, we WILL continue to and DID use Random.org to pick our winners from 120 entries. Our sponsors last week were Eureka Stamps with THREE digis and Polkadoodles with a £9/$15 USD digi voucher!

Congratulations! Please send an email to IDCB.Winner@gmail.com within 7 days. We will provide you with info on how to collect your prize. :) Be sure to grab our badge from the right side bar to proudly display on your personal blog! Thank you so much for playing along with Inspiration Destination!

Now for our DT Favorites! These participants were each handpicked from 120
entries!

Team members who participated in the challenge each selected a favorite and here they are:

Billie's favorite is #83 Bloom - Diane Shull and here's why in her own words: Her image is so beautifully colored and the placement of the flowers is an awesome touch and perfect with the sentiment. Great colors and just a beautiful fun card.

Dianne's favorite is #10 Vanessa and here's why in her own words: Gorgeous card love the image fabulous layout and wonderful colours xx

Ema's favorite is #3 Emma R and here's why in her own words: Where do I start? The coloring is just fabulous! I love all the layers and attention to detail and the image is just too cute! xx

Julie's favorite is #6 Chris - origami Christmas and here's why in her own words: I love the technique and the Gelli prints. Very cool!

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Patricia's favorite is #18 Cicci vid pennan and here's why in her own words: The coloring, papers, layout are very beautiful. All the embellishments, specially the packages, are gorgeous.

Wendy's favorite is #99 Mel C and here's why in her own words: Such a gorgeous card, love the blues and the colouring is beautiful.

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Congratulations and well done! Please grab our DT Favorite badge from our side bar to the right.

Thank you for joining our challenge last week and we hope to see you again!

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Hiya, bloggers! Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas holiday... and Santa was good to all the children! My mom always said that Christmas was for children... but any year she didn't get a gift because gifts were bought for the children... she had a fit! lol But, that's a story for another time.

Before I forget, we've still got our DT Call going on! You can check it out here.

Also, I wanna wish everyone a safe and Happy New Year! :) If you drink, don't drive! And if you drive, don't drink or text! :D I'll be partying safely here in my home... I'm hoping I can stay up at least until 9! After all... it IS the new year! lol I tell you, if people who knew me when I was younger could see me now, they wouldn't believe it! I'm doing it and I cannot believe it! lol And by IT, I mean staying home. :) lol There I go... getting off the subject again!

Right now, I'd like to invite you to join us in this week's challenge. We've THREE fabulous sponsors this week and plenty of prizes to go around! lol

SLSlines is the work of Sal Scheibe, a freelance illustrator and graphic designer who loves to draw and create fun illustrations. Sal works as the Art Director of ArtTrader Magazine. Prior to freelance illustrating, she worked as a Creative Designer for a music firm working with TV and advertising clients.

Sal spends her nights drawing geeky things like RPG characters, zombies, fairies, awkward people, pretty girls and odd animals. She offers a broad range of fun digital stamps in many themes from geeky to cute and whimsical to realistic. Her digital stamps start life as sketchy little doodles which are then cleaned up digitally in Photoshop and made presentable and perfect for you.

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Welcome, bloggers and Merry Christmas! Even with the busy, crazy holiday season, we still had a wonderful turnout with 161 entries last week! Wow! Spoiler alert! We're picture heavy this week! :D lol
A couple of things I'd like to "talk" about before we get to this week's winners!Please make note of our new email address just for winners! :)
Also, for the last three challenges, we had the same crafter win each week and I just want you all to know that is because it is truly random! I have no control over who Random {dot} org chooses. The only time I re-draw is if the winner didn't follow the rules.
My Team and I are brain-storming this one. We may change how we draw our winners but we won't come to any decision until after the holiday season.
Finally, I know we all had a busy month because I've barely had time to breathe since mid-November! We have had a flurry of unclaimed prizes and I've not seen any real snow! Ha! I know, I know! I can be very corny! lol But I am feeling my hand forced on this one. If a winner does not claim a prize, that winner will not be eligible for another prize for a month. If we change our method of drawing winners, that point may be moot but if we don't, it'll be a new rule listed on our sidebar over there...
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...along with all the other rules. :)
Now... to get to why we're all here! Our winners! We have winners galore this week! Be sure to read all the way to the end of the post because there are winners all the way to the very end! Please keep in mind that it is Christmas and if I do not answer your email this week, I will for sure by Monday! :)
As always, we DO use Random.org to pick our winners. Our sponsor last week was the fabulous Inky Impressions offering 3 digis to one lucky winner!

Congratulations! Please send an email to IDCB.Winner@gmail.com within 7 days. We will provide you with info on how to collect your prize. :) Be sure to grab our badge from the right side bar to proudly display on your personal blog! Thank you so much for playing along with Inspiration Destination!

Now for our DT Favorites! These participants were each handpicked from 161 entries!

Team members who participated in the challenge each selected a favorite and here they are:

Billie's favorite is #103 Jackie Cornfield and here's why in her own words: I like the layout of the card, great color choices and dies, cute image and coloring.

Dianne's favorite is #30 Nick and here's why in her own words: Gorgeous Christmas card love the image xx

Lynn's favorite is #161 KT Fit Kitty and here's why in her own words: CAS design and the cute image...lovely creation.

Maria's favorite is #43 Bunny's Cards and here's why in her own words: Love the cute Penguins. Did a great job on the card.

Michelle's favorite is #75 Deonna B and here's why in her own words: I love what she made out of her tags. The idea with the paperclips is great.

Patricia's favorite is #118 Susan Kennedy and here's why in her own words: She altered a couple of lanterns and they are just gorgeous. What a great project.

Wendy's favorite is #99 Carol Gill and here's why in her own words: The image is beautiful and the colouring fantastic.

Congratulations and well done! Please grab our DT Favorite badge from our side bar to the right.

Thank you for joining our challenge last week and we hope to see you again!

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But wait! We've had several weeks this month our winners did not contact us. I guess they are super busy with Christmas stuff cause I know I was! I'm re-drawing (via Random {dot} org) for these prizes as well and I'm doing that right here! :) lol
For Challenge No. 63, the winner of THREE digis from Robyn's Fetish, and out of 176 participants, Random.org chose:

Please put IDCB Winner No. 61 PC in the subject line.
I sure hope I got that right! That was confusing for me! :p Ha!
Congratulations! Please send an email to IDCB.Winner@gmail.com within 7 days. We will provide you with info on how to collect your prize. :) Be sure to grab our badge from the right side bar to proudly display on your personal blog! Thank you so much for playing along with Inspiration Destination!

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Thank you for joining our challenge last week and we hope to see you again!

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Challenge Rules

Bummer! Rules! Yuck! Have to have them for those who don't play fair! Sad but true:

1. Our challenges are Anything Goes bi-weekly, rain or shine! Most of the challenges are JFF (just for fun - no prize) but a few are sponsored. These challenges start on Wednesdays at 12 AM USA CST and end on the second Tuesday after starting at 12 PM USA CST. You can share cards, altered items, mixed media, layouts or anything else you can think of that you've made with your two hands and used your imagination to create! This must be a new project and no back-linking please!

2. Entries are unlimited per participant. DT Members will leave comments on the first entry for each participant. ALL entries will be viewed in order to select the TOP 3. This is something we've always done and will always do. :)

3. You must be a follower to win prize when we have sponsors! Otherwise, how will you know you have won?

4. Please mention and link back to our challenge on your entry post.

5. This isn't a rule, but please turn off word verification; otherwise, we cannot leave some blog luv!

6. If you do not have a blog, please feel free to email your project to us at inspirationdestinationcb@gmail.com. We will be happy to show your card for you.

7. When we have sponsors, winners are chosen with Random.org and listed on Thursdays after the start of the new challenge. You have one week to claim the prize. If prize remains unclaimed, a new winner will be chosen by Random.org

8. There will be TOP 3 chosen by three select Design Team members week after week, whether we have a sponsor or not.